Stephan Hochdörfer

I'm happy to announce that I'll be joining the celebrations at the 10-year anniversary of the PHP Developer Day Conference on September 25th, organized by my friends at the PHP Usergroup Dresden.

I've been using OpenCode for my AI development workflow over the past six months. I like the flexibility and extensibility of OpenCode. However, one feature I missed was the ability to receive sound notifications when my attention was required.

In a Nomad job file, template blocks are a convenient way to ship configuration files that are populated from environment variables, Vault secrets, or just general configurations.

API Platform Conference 2026 is back on September 17–18, 2026 in Lille, France.

The Sylius framework, built on top of Symfony, offers a robust foundation for e-commerce applications. One of its strengths is the ease of integrating Symfony UX components, such as the autocomplete element, into the Sylius Admin UI. However, when dealing with translatable Sylius entities, the Symfony UX Autocomplete component requires additional configuration to function properly.

While experimenting with the new Symfony AI component, I realized that you cannot only build MCP servers for your application but also have an MCP server integrated that exposes insights in your Symfony app for your coding agent. This component is called the AI Mate.

Our next PHPUG Frankfurt meetup is scheduled for the 21st of May 2026 at the office from our friends at Reservix.

In the Sylius Admin interface, a breadcrumb element is present in the content part of various pages. This element is rendered using the @SyliusBootstrapAdminUi/shared/crud/update/content/header/breadcrumbs.html.twig Twig template.

In one of our Sylius projects, we are using the Sylius Settings plugin by our friends from Monsieur Biz to manage settings efficiently.

As I prepared for my live coding demo at the E-Commerce Open Source Summit in Paris later this week, I stumbled upon an interesting challenge: Our phpstan-sylius extension was not fully compatible with the latest features of the Sylius Stack release.